The 2012 orienteering season came in with a bang at the weekend with the traditional start in Edinburgh. Organised by Edinburgh University, the weekend attracts runners from all over the UK who enjoy 2 days of competition plus a ceilidh and Burns Supper.
With UK Urban League points at stake, the race round the streets and alleyways of the city on Saturday attracted a large entry and it was good to have Roxburgh Reivers back into their winning ways with top places for Robin Sloan and Lindsey Knox. Kirstin Maxwell, Fiona Forrest and Ian Maxwell had exceptional runs too, finishing in 2nd place in their age classes.
John Tullie addressed the haggis at the ceilidh and a good night was had by all.
On Sunday the runners took part in a competition round a windy Holyrood Park. There were wins for Ian Maxwell, Robin Sloan and John Tullie, with Barry Veitch and Fiona Forrest both taking the runners-up spot.
Results are HERE
A much better day for the weather this year and another good turnout for both the Come and Try It and Championships.
Duncan Shiell took the honours in the Championships, closely followed by Lindsey Knox.
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Pos.
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Name
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Age
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Handicap
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Time
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1
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Duncan Shiell
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M60
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8
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00:27:23
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2
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Lindsey Knox
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W50
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11
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00:27:48
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3
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Eileen Maxwell
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W45
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11
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00:31:38
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4
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Robert Cranston
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M45
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11
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00:31:57
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5
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Karen Maxwell
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W18
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12
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00:32:39
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6
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William Bruce
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M55
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9
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00:34:11
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7
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James Purves
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M50
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10
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00:34:44
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8
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Susan Shiell
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W60
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6
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00:35:43
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9
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Paul McGreal
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M40
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13
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00:37:25
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10
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Robin Sloan
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M65
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12
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00:37:25
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11
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John Tullie
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M55
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16
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00:42:43
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Results for the Yellow and Orange are HERE, along with the splits for the Championships.
An excellent turnout of 20 members and friends gathered in Hawick for a Score event disguised as a game of snakes and ladders. Karen Maxwell and Sandy Burgon both managed to complete their board in only 5 moves and 12 “points” from the 54 available, managing to hit 2 of the 3 ladders and none of the 3 snakes, so finished 1st equal.
Boxing Day 2011
Results of the Score part are HERE
The game board is HERE
Routegadget is HERE. There may be other ways of doing this but I followed Paul Frost’s tutorial. The trick to making it look sensible is to untick the box on the right hand side marked “Course on/Off”.
Lindsey
Results HERE. Notes: Fiona Forrest was manually timed, and Eleanor Heger forgot to Download. I’d uploaded Routegadget before getting this information, so neither appear on the Routegadget files.
Routegadget HERE. You can draw on your route on the map and compare it with others. Start by clicking “draw your route” at the top right hand corner, then choose your course and name.
Organiser’s Report
Pity about the rain on Saturday – we might all have preferred the snow of last year. It was a beautiful morning setting out the controls and not bad for taking them in, but the deluge came at just the wrong time. However, it was a great turnout for the event and hopefully all enjoyed their course. More routes on Routegadget please! From those who have put their routes up, I can see there are a few deficiencies in the map – especially around 114 (#7 on Orange and O ++) – so these have been corrected for next time. Otherwise, you seem to have found enough route choices – Tweedbank is ideal for this kind of event.
Well done to Kirstin for the fastest time on O++, but 62 seconds only between the first 4 runners! And well done to Rainer and Marc for a super-fast run round the Yellow course.
Thanks to Rob for manning Registration, Lindsey for printing the maps and doing the computing, and to Douglas and John for bringing in controls. That all meant we were just about on time for our 2pm lunch!
Robin
On a wonderfully sunny November afternoon the action moved to Gordon Community Woodland. This local event was well supported with a number of families from Gordon itself together with quite a number of those who had been at Bowmont or Bowhill earlier in the Autumn Series. It was the best attendance of the series so far and certainly exceeded our expectations as only a handful of people attended the last event we held here in 2010. In fact, we ran out of Orange course maps this time and a few people had to select Yellow or Score courses instead. I do hope that you all enjoyed it nonetheless ! We were able to use the little wooden chalet next to the pond as our start and finish point which was ideal, particularly for the equipment required for SI electronic timing.
Orange and Score competitors were perhaps surprised at control 109 to see a magnificent new willow sculpture of a stag which has appeared in the forest since our last visit. I wonder if there will be more sculptural additions before our next visit ?
Although Gordon is mainly suitable for less technical courses like Yellow and Orange, club members agreed that there was considerable scope for refining the existing map to better represent the complex vegetation changes and produce some more challenging orienteering in the future.
Thanks to Judy & Alan McNeilly, Robin Sloan and Rob Cranston who helped me with the control collection at the end of the event.
Our last event in the Autumn Series is just a little different as we move to a more urban setting at Tweedbank on December 3rd from 12-1pm. It promises to be a lot of fun !
Andrew Armstrong (Organiser)
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Full Results HERE
Score course: Totals and penalties HERE
ESOA Champions 2011
A small but very select band of Reivers were at Deans and Dechmont (Livingston) on Sunday for the 2011 East of Scotland Championships, an event postponed from 2010 when snow and ice led to it being called off at the last minute. Continue reading 'East of Scotland Championships – Dechmont'»
It has been a busy few months containing a lot of success for the Reivers. Continue reading 'Autumn so far……'»
It was good to see a large turnout at Bowhill today and especially encouraging to see so many new faces. Continue reading 'Results for Autumn Series No 2 – Bowhill'»
The autumn series got off to a good start at Bowmont on 17th September with a healthy turnout of 26 people enjoying a sunny run round the woods. Continue reading 'Results of Autumn Series No 1 – Bowmont'»
The dates and venues for our autumn series have been added to the right hand column – the individual pages have been updated with the details apart from parking at Gordon and Tweedbank which will be added nearer the time.
Continue reading 'Autumn Series'»
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